For The Children, Of Course
The January 12 edition of the EIA Communique, published by the Education Intelligence Agency reports the National Education Association, a teachers union, “will spend up to $250,000 on activities related to the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Part of the money will be used to pay for ‘NEA presence at appropriate events.’” EIA also reports:
“The union is so flush with cash that even in an election year it spent only $13 million out of an available $20.4 million from its Ballot Measure/Legislative Crises Fund, a national war chest funded by a $10 assessment from each member.”
Two other checks the NEA wrote include:
“$250,000 to the National Coalition on Health Care and $1 million to Communities for Quality Education, an NEA front group created as ‘America Learns’ in 2004.”
Speaking of wisdom from the teachers unions, EIA published its “2008 EIA Public Education Quotes of the Year” in the prior week’s Communique. One we especially liked was:
"By the way, had the teachers' union been around when Sam Adams threw tea into the harbor, they would have run ads against him."
-- Carla Howell, whose ballot initiative to eliminate the Massachusetts income tax was defeated by a well-funded union campaign
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